Press for printing menus



No. 623,930. Patented Apr. 25, |899. A. G. SARGENT & L. B. MARTIN.

PRESS FOR PRINTING MENUS, 81.0.

(,Ap'pucacion med June e, 189s.)

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A. G. SARGENT L. B. MARTIN. PRESS FOR PRINTING MENUS, &c.

(Application led .Tuna 6, 1898.)

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(No Model.)

Nrrnn ARTHUR G. SARGENT, OF TILTON, AND LOUIS B. MARTIN, OF LAOONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO LEON J. lWIERCI-IAND, OF LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PRESS FOR PRINTING MENUS, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,930, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed Tune 6, 1898. Serial No. 682,637. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concer/0,:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR G. SARGENT, of Tilton, and LOUIS B. MARTIN, of Laconia, in the county of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Presses for Printing Menus, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable those skilled in the art to which it apxo pertains or with which it is most nearly connected to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to printingpresses generally, and particularly to hand printing-presses adapted to print menus or bills of fare and similar things.

It is the object of the invention to provide a printing-press of the character described which shall be efcient for the purpose for which it is intended and which shall be capazo ble of being used by an ordinarily intelligent person and not necessarily by one skilled4 in the art of printing.

Theinvention contemplates the use of typebars or slugs cast, it may be, as is done by so- 2 5 called linotype-machine,7 so as to obviate type-setting, and an inking-pad similar in function to inking-pads employed with commonly-used hand-stamps.

To these ends and with this understanding 3o the invention consists of-an organized printin g-press employing in its construction a suitable frame, a sliding or movable bed on the frame, a slug-holder adapted to be secured on the bed, a depressible ink-pad and a depressible press-platen, and a lever or other suitable means for sliding the bed to and fro to Of the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of our improved printing-press complete. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, the bed being shown as moved under the ink-pad ready to have the latter depressed. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the machine. Fig. 4 is a front end view of the same.

The frame of the machine comprises a baseplate 0L, to which are secured uprights b b', which uprights, with the standards c, support the plate d, the latter in turn supporting beneath it the platen c and the ink-pad f. The ink-pad and platen are normally held in raised position by means of springs g operating between the heads of bolts connected with the said pad and platen and the plate d, so that the ink-pad and platen may be depressed to a limited extent by pressure applied thereon and be raised, as before indicated, by means of springs. A shaft h is se-- cured in the upper ends of the uprights b, and a rock-rod z' is journaled in suitable bearings in the upper ends of the uprights h'.

j designates an eccentric to the shaft h, and to a strap Zo, surrounding the said eccentric, there is attached an operating-lever Z. Arranged to turn on the shaft 7L is a collar m, and from a part connected therewith there extends downward a crank a, between the lower end of which and the end of a crank 0 on the rockrod i' there is a pitman or link p. Connected with the collar m is a disk q, provided in its periphery with a notch r, adapted to receive a dog s, connected with the strap 7o, surrounding the eccentric on the shaft 7L. As the handle Z is operated to and fro the dog s will engage the notch r in the disk q and turn said disk to a limited extent or until the eccentric carries the dog out of engagement with the said notch, and so move the collar mand parts connected therewith so long as it is in engagement with the notchvof the disk q, and when the collar m is moved, as aforesaid, by operating the lever the cranks n 0 Will be operated, operating the rock-rod vz', which is connected through the medium of links t a with the bed o of the machine, and so move said bed to and fro on the base a, it being guided in suitable tracks or ways. (Best shown perhaps in Fig. 4.) This movement of the bed to and fro will carry it lirstunder theinking-pad, so that it may be inked, and then back under the platen c, so that the latter may be pressed down thereon and print the ink-type upon the paper or card placed between the type and the lower surface of the bed.

Connected with the strap surrounding the eccentric]l is a curved lingen/U in front anda cam .r to the rear or on the bottom. \Vhen the operating-lever is moved over forward, the finger y'1U will be brought to bear upon the free end of a lever y, adapted to bear on an adjusting-serew,a', connected with a boss on the ink-pad, and so depress the said ink-pad upon the type carried by the bed, and when the 0perating-lever is moved back in the opposite direction the cam :r will act upon a short lever a, resting upon an adjusting-screw c, tapped into a boss extending upward from the platen c, and so depress the said platen upon the )aper or card between the lower surface thereof and the type carried by the bed.

The dog 3 is engaged with the disk (j on the collarjustlong enough in the movement of the lever to move the bed from under the platen to position under the ink-pad and back again. After the bed 1: is moved to each of the limits mentioned the dog is disengaged from the disk, and the further movement of the lever or handle Z operates through the devices before described to depress either the ink-pad or platen, as hereinbefore explained, and the construction and timing of the means for moving the type-bed are. such that the said typebed will reach the limits of its reciprocating movements before either the ink-pad or platen is depressed.

d designates a type-carrier adapted to receive slugs or type-bars e' thereon and to have them locked in position by the lockingscrewf operating against the sides thereof, as best shown in Fig. The said type-carrier is arranged to be moved into place on the bed fr and to be held in place thereon by any proper means, the object of employing a type-carrier being to provide means whereby the type-holder maybe drawn out, so that the matter composing the bill of fare may be altered by changing the slugs or type-bars and so as to allow the said matter to be readily locked in the type-carrier.

Connected with the sides of the platen c are strips g of metal extending below the surface of the lower face of the platen, and just inside the strips g' are narrow strips of steel or similar metal 7L, forming springs, the said strips and springs together constitilting guides for the card or paper, which may be moved into place beneath the platen and held there while being printed-that is, while the impression is being made upon the paper, as before described.

The ink-pad may be supposed to be of such a nature as is commonly used with rubber stamps, and it may have ink applied thereto by any suitable means when the type-bed is moved forward under the platen.

The machine as a whole constitutes a very com pact' and efficient contrivance whereby hotel men and restaurant keepers and others not having ready access to a printing-office or not having a sufficiently profitable business to warrant the regular printing of a bill of fare daily may print their own menu or other similar matter.

Vhile the machine is designed as a menuprinter, it is obvious that at the same time it is adapted for printing other things.

\Vhile we have shown what we at present consider the best form of devices for embodying our invention in a printing-press, we would have it understood that changes may be made in the form and arrangement of some of the parts constituting the invention without departing from the nature and spirit Of our invention.

Having thus explained the nature of the invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, it is declared that what is claimed isl. In a printing-press the combination of a reciprocating type-bed, an inking-pad arranged above the path of the type-bed, springs for lifting the inking-pad away from the type, a platen also arranged above the path of the type-bed, springs for lifting said platen away from the type-bed, and means for successively depressing the inking-pad and the platen.

2. In a printing-press the combination, with the reciprocating type-bed, the inking-pad and the platen arranged above the type-bed, springs for holding the pad and the platen away from the type-bed, the rock-shaft, a pair of cams thereon for successively depressing the pad and the platen' against the type, and means actuated by said rock-shaft for reciprocating said type-bed, substantially as described.

In a printing-press the combination with the reciprocating type-bed of the inking-pad and the platen arranged above the path of the type-bed, springs for lifting and holding the platen and pad away from the type, the rock-shaft provided with means for successively depressing the pad and the platen, said rock-shaft having a link connection with the pivoted lever for reciprocating the typebed.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 28th day of May, A. D. 1898.

ARTHUR G. SARGENT. LOUIS i3. MARTIN.

Witnesses:

S. S. JEWETT, ALICE M. Davis.

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